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Worship Time

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on January 13, 2022Format ImageCategories Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS on Leadership, Happiness, Help Yourself to Happiness, Life Lessons, Spirituality, ZenTags Art of Living, AVIS Viswanathan, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Lessons, Spirituality, the happynesswala, the happynesswalas, Time, Zen SpiritualityLeave a comment on Worship Time

Make the most of what you have

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on July 18, 2020Format ImageCategories AVIS on Happyness, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Life LessonsTags Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Don't postpone Happiness, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Happiness, Health, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Coach, Life Coaching, Life Lessons, Money, the happynesswala, the happynesswalas, TimeLeave a comment on Make the most of what you have

Time changes everything, it changes everyone!

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on July 9, 2020July 9, 2020Format ImageCategories AVIS on Happyness, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Lessons, SpiritualityTags Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Faith, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Flow with Life, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Coach, Life Coaching, Life Lessons, Patience, Spirituality, the happynesswala, the happynesswalas, TimeLeave a comment on Time changes everything, it changes everyone!

Patience brings meaning to the journey of Life

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on June 11, 2019June 11, 2019Format ImageCategories Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Spirituality, UncategorizedTags Anger, Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Equanimity, Faith, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Happiness, Inner Peace, Inspiring Happiness, Inspiring Happyness, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Coach, Life Coaching, Life Lessons, Life Quotes, Pain, Paitence, Spirituality, Suffering, the happynesswala, Time, UncategorizedLeave a comment on Patience brings meaning to the journey of Life

What ‘hanging in there’, Faith, is all about…

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on May 15, 2019May 15, 2019Format ImageCategories Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Spirituality, UncategorizedTags Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Cluelessness, Faith, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Fear, God, Hanging in there, Inner Peace, Inspiring Happiness, Inspiring Happyness, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Coach, Life Coaching, Life Lessons, Life Quotes, Miracles, Prayer, Spirituality, the happynesswala, Time, Trust, Trust Life, Trust the process of Life, UncategorizedLeave a comment on What ‘hanging in there’, Faith, is all about…

There’s great power in Acceptance

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on March 19, 2019Format ImageCategories Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Lessons, Spirituality, UncategorizedTags Acceptance, Art of Living, AVIS Viswanathan, Embrace your pain, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Happiness, Inner Peace, Inspiration, Inspiring Happiness, Inspiring Happyness, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Coach, Life Coaching, Life Lessons, Life Quotes, Non-Suffering, Pain, Sadness, Spirituality, Suffering, the happynesswala, Time, Total Acceptance, Total Surrender, UncategorizedLeave a comment on There’s great power in Acceptance

We are all a product of the time we go through!

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on November 7, 2017Format ImageCategories Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Pause & Reflect, Spirituality, UncategorizedTags Art of Living, AVIS Viswanathan, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Coach, Life Lessons, Life Quotes, Pause & Reflect, Spirituality, Time, Trust Life, Trust the process of Life, UncategorizedLeave a comment on We are all a product of the time we go through!

Life coaches us through each experience – making us stronger, wiser and happier

You have to go through what you have to go through.

I addressed young folks at the Under 25 Lit Fest at IIT – M on Sunday. Most of the audience comprised of budding writers. One of them caught up with me after my Talk. He told me that his work had been rejected by 20 publishers over five years now. “I feel defeated. I believe in my work. I know I have something very valuable to share with the world. I don’t mind if I am rejected because my work is bad. But almost everyone has told me that my manuscript is very good. Yet they don’t want to publish my book…I fail to understand what Life is trying to tell me,” he exclaimed. He wanted to know if I had some perspectives to share.

I sure do.

I see Life as the greatest teacher. Everything that is happening in our Life is only making us stronger, wiser and, interestingly, happier. So, Life is coaching us through each experience – constantly giving us the test first and the lesson later. In our academic education system the lesson is taught first and then we are tested whether we have learnt it well. But Life doesn’t operate that way. In Life, every step you take is a test and every moment lived carries a lesson. Which is why, unable to transition from our academic conditioning to Life’s free-flowing nature, we struggle with Life. But over time you get better and better at dealing with Life’s ways. Surely, you are never going to be perfect at cracking all of Life’s situations. But yes, you will no longer be shaken, shocked or depressed when a new challenge arrives. This is what I mean when I say that over time Life makes you stronger, wiser and happier.

I asked the young man how was he able to handle rejections now compared to when he was rejected the first few times. “Oh! I just chuckle to myself and say, ‘So, what’s new?’” he replied.

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I pointed out to him that he was doing just great dealing with Life. That indeed must be the spirit. I am not well-versed with the scriptures nor have I read all the 18 chapters of the Bhagavad Gita. But from what I have learnt of the Gita’s message, I realize no matter what we wish or how we want things to be, we only are entitled to our efforts, to our actions. We cannot ever claim to control the outcomes. Sometimes, despite our best efforts, we may not get what we want. And at other times, without much effort we may be extraordinarily rewarded by Life. So, a string of rejections is just Life’s way of teaching you, of reminding you, that you are not in control. Life is telling you that there’s a higher intelligence, a Higher Energy, which is in control. Even a “brilliant stroke of luck” reiterates precisely the same point.

The young man then asked me one more question: “While I can understand that Life’s upheavals make you stronger and wiser, I am not sure they make you happier. Do they, really?”

I like that question. To understand the answer to that question, let’s first understand here what makes us unhappy. We are unhappy when we don’t get what we want. Simple. So, through surviving Life’s upheavals, if we learn to be accepting of the Life we have, than pine for the Life that we want, won’t we be happier? In the young man’s case, he’s learnt, unwittingly perhaps, to be detached from the outcome of his efforts; he has learnt to drop all his expectations. Whenever you have no expectation from Life, you will only be happy.

What I have also understood about Life is that everything happens at its own pace, in its own time. Just as you cannot argue with Life, you cannot rewind or fast forward time. You have to go through what you have to go through. There is no escape. And so, the best way to live peacefully, happily, is to put in your best efforts each time and leave the results to Life. This means, don’t fight, don’t resist Life. Just accept what comes your way and keep moving on!

 

Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on August 8, 2017August 8, 2017Categories Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Spirituality, UncategorizedTags Acceptance, Art of Living, AVIS Viswanathan, Bhagavad Gita, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Lessons, Life Quotes, Rejection, Spirituality, Time, Uncategorized, Under 25 Lit Fest, UnhappinessLeave a comment on Life coaches us through each experience – making us stronger, wiser and happier

Zen and the art of being non-frustrated

A friend asks me why, despite having talent, integrity and goodness, people have to face difficult times. I tell him that talent and integrity do not necessarily offer a smooth passage through Life. So, drop all analyses, I advise him. Just anchor in patience and flow with Life choosing to be non-frustrated and happy, despite the circumstances. This Vlog captures the perspective I shared with him.

View time: 4:31 minutes

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on July 25, 2017Categories Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Spirituality, the happynesswala, UncategorizedTags Art of Living, AVIS Viswanathan, Bhagavad Gita, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Frustrated, Goodness, Happiness, Inner Peace, Integrity, Intelligent Living, Life, Non-frustrated, Patience, Spirituality, Talent, the happynesswala, Time, Uncategorized, Unhappiness, ZenLeave a comment on Zen and the art of being non-frustrated

While you slog your Life is ticking away!

My Podcast today holds up a mirror to us reminding us that we must live intelligently – to make time for ourselves, our families and do what we love doing the most! After all, Life is a limited-period offer!!

Listen time: 5:10 minutes

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on June 21, 2017Categories Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Spirituality, UncategorizedTags Anxiety, Art of Living, AVIS Viswanathan, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Spirituality, Stress, The AVIS Viswanathan Podcast, Time, Uncategorized, Work-Life BalanceLeave a comment on While you slog your Life is ticking away!

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